Over the last few years, Seth Frantzman and Jonathan Spyer have reported on the ground from Syria and Iraq, as … More
Tag: Reviews
A familial tragedy
Between 1989 and 2000, from the fall of the Berlin Wall until the rise of Vladimir Putin, nearly a million … More
Hunt for the truth
Is it possible to change your entire life? The Legacy, British journalist and Jerusalem Post columnist Melanie Phillips’s latest novel, … More
God as protagonist
In his rather radical survey of Jewish literature from antiquity to the last century, Adam Kirsch highlights the importance of … More
Occupation 101
In the summer of 2012, the people of Nabi Saleh finally made it to the spring. Every Friday since 2009, … More
Why doesn’t the west care about the Middle East’s Christians?
For a conflict so often compared to a crusade, the Iraq War has been devastating for Christians in the Middle … More
What fractured Jerusalem needs now
In the summer of 2014 Jerusalem broke apart, again. In those few bloody months, which began in April with the … More
In praise of pastrami
Food writer Janna Gur’s “Book of New Israeli Food” is one of several recent cookbooks celebrating the rich diversity of … More
The war on women in Israel
Sexist laws and institutions threaten women in Israel, but Arab women are beset from all sides
Islam in Liberalism
Is Islam inherently opposed to Western liberalism?
An Israeli undercurrent rippling through Guantanamo
Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s “Guantanamo Diary” has been, as the censors say, heavily redacted
Many admirers, few disciples
The life and legacy of Rav Kook
God wanted peace, so Carter chimed in
The most impressive fact about the 1979 Camp David Accords
The morning after
I was in New York on September 11th
“Arab,” “Jew,” and identity in Israel
In 1946, Baghdad was a Jewish town
Daniel Gordis in Purgatory
In portraying a saint-like Begin, Gordis is attempting to silence contemporary critics of today’s Likud-led government
A guide for the perplexed
A modern-day tale of love and suspense
The spy who loved
A Jew, a woman and Churchill’s favorite spy: Christine Granville, flesh-and-blood hero
Before the revolution
Israeli director Dan Shadur talks about his new documentary about life under the Shah
Doing justice to Josephus
For most of Jewish history, Flavius Josephus was the odd man out
Howard Zinn
At age 86, Howard Zinn destroyed history
Reimagining Jewish pilgrimage
There is a passage in Gideon Lewis-Kraus’ new memoir, “A Sense of Direction,” that will make any secularist smile
Jonathan Kis-Lev’s Jerusalems
Entering the Art and Soul Gallery on Shlomtzion Ha-Malka Street, you exit Jerusalem
Gay orthodoxy
Trembling Before G-d begins with ultra-Orthodox Jews wearing sack-cloth